Corning Specialty Materials Profile
Overview
From creating glass windows for space shuttles to developing optical components for high-tech industries and cover glass solutions for consumer electronics, Corning Specialty Materials provides optical applications and more than 150 material formulations to meet unique customer needs.
Corning is one of very few manufacturers with deep capabilities in materials science, optical design, shaping, coating, finishing and assembly. For customers this means reduced complexity, shortened manufacturing cycles and ultimately, increased value.
Product Summary
Corning provides specialty materials solutions for the following markets:
Consumer Electronics
Corning® Gorilla® Glass is a thin-sheet cover glass that helps protect today’s most innovative mobile electronic devices from the scratches, drops and bumps of every day use.
Aerospace and Defense
Integrated advanced optical sensor solutions and complete opto-mechanical solutions for aerospace and defense applications.
Astronomy
Glass materials, surfaces and light management applications for large-size blanks and optics used in both ground and space-based astronomy applications.
Display Optics/Components
Technologies that drive the development of superior, advanced optical components, including micro display components, covers for touch screens and other portable devices, substrate glass and UV glass filters for display market applications.
Metrology Instruments
Industry leading metrology instrumentation solutions for the semiconductor, data storage, aerospace and defense, flat panel display inspection. and industrial markets.
Semiconductor Optics/Components
Optical materials, precision optics, optical-based metrology instruments and technical microlithography solutions for the semiconductor industry.
Specialty Glass
Premier glass, glass-ceramics and optical components that enable optics systems for various industrial and commercial applications.
Telecommunications Components
New and innovative specialty optical fibers for a wide range of growing markets in applications such as telecommunications components, fiber optic sensors and gyroscopes, high power fiber lasers and medical devices.
Vision Care
Technologically advanced materials and customer-driven solutions for the ophthalmic industry and selected optics markets.
Important Milestones
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1930 – Dr. Franklin Hyde discovered the new method of making glass (flame hydrolysis)
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1969 – Large scale manufacturing of HPFS in Canton, NY begins
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1999 – Optovac, manufacturer of fluoride crystals, acquired
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2000 – Corning acquires NetOptix (formerly Optical Filter Corporation)
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2001 – Corning acquires Tropel Corporation
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2007 – Corning celebrates Silver Anniversary of Polarcor™ glass polarizers
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2007 – Corning Gorilla Glass comes to market.
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2008 – Corning acquires Optimum Manufacturing Corporation
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2010 – Corning Gorilla Glass wins Corporate Technical Achievement Award from the American Ceramic Society
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2010 – Corning Gorilla Glass is currently used by 27 major brands and is designed into more than 290 devices
Recent News
Recent Corning Specialty Materials news is available online at www.corning.com/specialtymaterials/.
Leadership
James R. Steiner
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Specialty Materials
James Hollis
Director, Sales and Engineering, Gorilla Glass, Specialty Materials
Clifford L. Hund
General Manager and President Corning East Asia
Mark A. Matthews
Division Vice President, Business Manager, Technical Materials, Specialty Materials
James N. Nagel
Division Vice President, Program Development, Gorilla Glass, Specialty Materials
Paul Tompkins
Director Commercial Technology, Gorilla Glass, Specialty Materials
David R. Velasquez
Director, Marketing and Commercial Operations, Gorilla Glass
Curt Weinstein
Vice President and General Manager, Advanced Optics - Specialty Materials
Media Contacts
Worldwide
Anna Giambrone
office: 607-974-5933
giambronai@corning.com
Facilities
- Charlestown, New Hampshire – USA
- Corning, New York – USA
- Canton, New York – USA
- Fairport, New York – USA
- Harrodsburg, KY – USA
- Keene, New Hampshire – USA
- Bagneaux, France
- Fuzhou, China
Additional Information
For additional information, visit Corning Specialty Materials online at www.corning.com/specialtymaterials/.